HONG KONG: A student from mainland China arrested at a Hong Kong democracy protest was sentenced on Thursday to six weeks in prison for possession of an offensive weapon – the city’s first such case involving a mainlander in almost five months of unrest.
He has already spent two weeks in custody after his conviction and will spend four more weeks behind bars following his sentencing in court on Thursday. Also on Thursday, a 16-year-old was found guilty of two counts of possessing offensive weapons, the first conviction of a juvenile since the protests started.
That assault on July 21 left nearly 50 people including passers-by in hospital, some with horrific wounds. On China’s Twitter-like Weibo, users blamed him for standing with “rioters” in Hong Kong, while some even went further, harassing his family.
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